Poems The Hidden Message

Masjidil Haram Mekah Mukaramah

        

            Dengan Bismillah Mula Dikata,

            Mengingati Kebesaran Allah Yang Mulia,

            Kerana Wajib Telah Tenyata,

            Segala Perbuatan Mahulah Diserta.

            (Start With Bismillah,

             Remembering the Greatness of Allah, the Noble,

             Because The Reserve Has Turned Out,

             With All the Action Is Followed)

            Those are part of the poem that was written by the late Founder of Silat Seni Gayong, Dato Meor Abdul Rahman, may peace be upon him, Alfatihah. But most of us only have a glance or remembering the verses of the poem without taking sometimes to understand in the hidden message behind. I would like to share what was the message from the poem.

            Dengan Bismillah Mula Dikata, is a reminder to all the Silat Seni Gayong disciple that we are no one or nothing. It’s a greatness to be humble and without the mercy of the Creator we are nothing. In all of our aspect of life we should thank the Creator for his merciless that we still can stand and perform our activities and life in this world. 

            Mengingati Kebesaran Allah Yang Mulia, is to remember the powerful of the Creator and to set in our mind that we are not strong. We are just a human being that has a responsibility to our life, that’s the responsible to the creator and mankind.

            Kerana Wajib Telah Ternyata, is why the creator create us. The creation is to humble themselves to the Creator in many aspects in life. 

            Segala Perbuatan Mahulah Diserta means what we do in our life we must not forget that we are an ordinary human being that have nothing. We have been created to fulfil our destiny and responsibility and to perpetuate itself to the Creator. 

            All the verses in the poem calling us and teach Silat Seni Gayong practitioner on faith. Learning and instil character to the faith to the Almighty the Creator of mankind and the universe. This is a teaching of faith that wishes to be absorbed by Silat Seni Gayong practitioners. This is the spiritual aspects of it as well as martial arts training. From spiritual aspects and martial arts aspects Silat Seni Gayong practitioners are taught to be humble in all aspects of life and assist the needs of the needed for the harmony of life and mankind.

                                                  “Gayong Adalah Diri Aku Sendiri”

Seni Yoi or Tapak Yoi

            Seni Yoi is among the highest and mystery techniques in Silat Seni Gayong teaching. The techniques are like a mystery and kept as a secret of the art. Many misunderstand about Seni Yoi and Tapak Yoi. The different of both the techniques are only known by the mastered. What most student feel that they know about Seni Yoi is only the Tapak Yoi.

Tapak Yoi In Seni Keris

            Seni Yoi still kept as secret in the hand of the masters. Let us broad our mind a bit questioning what is Seni Yoi? As per my learning days and I am still learning, Seni Yoi can be define as an art or techniques with highly skills movements which the movements kind of soft soil. The gracious movements are beautiful and can delivered deadly touch which consists of 349 seni. In my early training in this deadly secret art the performance are just small spaces as big as 6 x 9 feet size. With a gracious movements and a deadly striking in a single touch making the person can counter any attack from any angle and from various kind of attack and no matter how many the attacker will be. 

Tapak Yoi

Tapak Yoi

           WhileTapak Yoi is a foot work like jumping from one point to another point avoiding from been attack. Most of Tapak Yoi is applied in the art of Seni Keris and Seni Lembing. Without Tapak Yoi in both the art that means the practitioner have not completed the training in those weapons techniques. In Tapak Yoi the training also are done on a small spaces ground and the student are asked to make a lift from one point to another to flex the body while avoiding an attack in order to get the speed of the movements.

Another Tapak Yoi

End Of Tapak Yoi

           I hope this very small elaboration of the secret art will clear the mind of misunderstanding about Seni Yoi and Tapak Yoi.The most important things is to set our mind of digging the knowledge of Silat Seni Gayong as long as we are willing. There are always masters waiting for us it just a matter whether we can find it or not and suitable to our desire. The Malay proverb said to ask themselves the chest pat or tepuk dada tanya selera. May you have the best training ever? Cheers.

                                        “ Terlalu Banyak Rahsia Dalam Rahsia”

The Art Of Breaking

            Breaking can be defined as to cause, to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or the act of breaking something. In Silat Seni Gayong the art of breaking are taught to give confidence in doing something. The breaking are from various material, such as brick, drain, roof tiles, bamboo, coconut and many more. All this have the way and techniques depend on the material that we are going to break.The breaking can be applied by knuckle,elbow,head,knee,kicking and many more applications.

Breaking A Roof Tiles, Making A Stance

           I would like to share the breaking techniques based on Silat Seni Gayong point of concept and philosophies. Let share the techniques of breaking a roof tiles. There are many types of roof tiles, there are from clay and from cement tiles. The clay tiles are softer from the cement tiles. For beginner the clay tiles are good for bringing the confident but the techniques that I gone to elaborate can be apply either the clay or the cement tiles. 

Breaking Roof Tiles By Knuckle

            When applying a breaking on the tiles first we must make sure that the foundation for lying the tiles are put accordingly and making sure it not gone to move when the act been applied. The tiles must be arranged about half an inch at each edge on the foundations. When the arrangements had been made make sure the tiles will not move.

Full Concentration

            From the tiles that are ready to be break, make a scale or point of breaking to be smash. You can choose either on the left or right side. The most important things are the measurements of the point of breaking. The measurements should be taken about a quarter from the whole tiles that are going to be the point of breaking. When you have made the measurements now you have to make your steady stance for the smash to be made. Make sure that in the stance the hand that gone to make the breaking are ninety degree from the shoulder to the roof tiles. While making an aim and breathing and concentration you are prepared for the breaking. 

Breaking Roof Tiles By Head

           There is things to remembered when breaking a roof tiles, that the material pieces are sharp when break, and  for precaution you are advise to cover the roof tiles with cloth. The best form to trained this act is to get the advice from your qualified instructors and he must explained from A to Z the techniques should be applied and the pre caution procedure.

Breaking Roof Tiles By Elbow

           I must advice to all practitioners it will feel great when you are able to do the breaking but must remember after each extreme breaking we must give enough rest for our hand at least every three month of each performance. This is to prevent the result of performing a breaking when we are old. I wish all for the best in training and a pleasure sharing the knowledge with all of you. Ok guy’s happy training. Cheers.

                                                “ Rahsia Tersimpan Di Purbakala.”

Seni The Body Position

           As my previous writing on “seni”, I have elaborated a glance of “seni” in punching. I would like to share more on this discussion on “seni” in the body movements or stances. Every move in martial arts particularly Silat Seni Gayong is based on mastery the art of the foot movements. Mastering this movements will prepared the practitioners in mastering the art and preparations of been an expert in this old art.

The Body Position

            In any grappling or striking techniques, the accuracy of the grappling or striking is based on how accurate it can be. In order to get to the accuracy it much attach to the movements of the foot and the body. Let me give an example, in the techniques of avoiding an attack where we pull our leg backwards and turns our body to the right side and stay in a parallel position while our hand are ready for the next moves. In this position we can perform a grappling, a striking or just avoiding the attack and making sure that the attacker not making any follow-ups move.

The Next Moves

            In this position to get an accurate body position of making the next moves is not easy. First we must understand Silat Seni Gayong is a close counter combat system. If it is a close combat system that means we must be closed to the opponent maybe in an inch distance.

The Exact Spot

           With a correct foot position when flee from the attack and correct body position we are ready for the countering moves. How this position does stands with? Remember when fleeing from the attack and stay on the parallel position our body must be equal with the arms of the attacker. The wrist and the elbow must be equal with the size of our body. 

The Next Moves

            When you have mastered this stands just move your hands by your lateral side and push forwards towards the attacker wrist and elbow. The position of grappling of the hand in this position will definitely accurate and the place to grip on the attacker hand is as per the exact spot. Whether this is perform with your eye open or blind folded you will still have the exact spot.

End With The Grappling

            With the exact spot your grappling or striking is accurate definitely and the spot that you touch is what we call “seni” in Silat Seni Gayong, and the position that you stands and the standby hand position for the next moves is what we call “seni” movements in Silat Seni Gayong. To understand these more one must have trained hard and been assist by their full knowledge instructor to make the position more robust and accurate. Have a pleasant training. Cheers.

                                          “ Tak Rasa Tak Tahu Dah Rasa Baru Tahu”

Escape The Simple Way

            I still remembered during the visit to Taiping to the Founder of Silat Seni Gayong house, the late Dato Meor Abdul Rahman, while wearing a sarong and singlet showing the art of escaping. The techniques shows are very simple and it is like a compulsory show to a new visited comer to the vicinity. It does not only mean for Silat Seni Gayong practitioners but to any visitors from any gender and races. There’s a martial artist practitioner visited to exchange knowledge was been shown the simple escaping techniques from Silat Seni Gayong perspectives. There are also visitors from all over the world exchanging knowledge particularly in the art of self defences.

            Escape as per the definition is to flee from and avoid, to be saved or exempt from, to shun, to obtain security from, as, to escape danger. In the context of Silat Seni Gayong is a techniques used to flee and avoid from being of locked and escape from danger. Sometimes we do not even think of simple escape techniques that can avoid us from danger. Mostly shown escape techniques are when been grab at the hand by someone. As natural what we will do is try to pull the hand of the grappler and try to escape which will not work for escaping. Due to panic and lack of self defence knowledge we will struggle ourselves in order to get released. Which is normally won’t work and end up being a victim of the situation.

           With a simple and less energy by pulling our hand up wards assisted by the other hands should be resolved the problems. The techniques just as simple and an effective that never thought off, if are not shown or taught by the expert. There are the common danger that happen in the streets or places without notice and aware. Such normal act that usually used is grabbing from the back, holding the shirts under the chin, holding the hands at the back and many more simple things that we are unable to escape without a correct knowledge. All these simple techniques are taught in Silat Seni Gayong based on the philosophy and concept of escaping. Escaping from any grabbing can start from the fingers, the elbow, the forearm, the body movements and many more which are our natural and nature occurrence. But all these natural resources must be train and alert to the situation in order to be applied normally without panic and fear and confidence.

                                                       “Seek The Knowledge”